Eaves-trough



(No Model.)

.W. LOSSIE & W. LOSSIE, Jr.

EAVES THOUGH.

No. 459,473. Patented Sept. 15, 1891..

Tn: rinks co., PHD UQWASHINQYUH n c- UNITED STATES 'ATENT QFFICE.

IVILLIAM LOSSIE AND IVILLIAM LOSSIE, JR, OF OVENSBOROUGH, KENTUCKY.

EAVES-TROUGH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 459,473, datedSeptember 15, 1891.

Application filed October 10, 1890- Serial No. 367,736. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ILLIAM LOSSIE and WILLIAM Lossrn, J12, citizens ofthe United States, residing at Owensborough, in the county of Daviess,State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inEaves-Troughs, of which the following is a specification, referencebeing had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements ineaves-trough hangers; audit has for its object, among others, to providea cheap and efficient hanger, readily attached to the roof of abuilding, and which may be also readily applied to or detached from thetrough and securely locked against displacement.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will hereinafter appear,and the novel features thereof willbe specifically defined by theappended claims.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings,which, with the letedge thereof, are each provided with a slot at uponthe same plane, and B is the stay-bar, formed of sheet metal ofsufficient length to extend across the trough and through the openingsin the side walls thereof, the ends of the stay then being bent atrightangles to its length and embracing the outer walls of the trough,as shown in Fig. 1. The said ends are split, as shown in Fig. 3, oneportion 19 extending upward and the other 12 downward to afford abetterhold. The side edges of the stay may be beaded, as shown at b inFig. 3, between the inner walls of the trough to strengthen the same.This stay-bar is provided with a longitudinal slot 1), arranged,

preferably, centrally, as shown, and C a sheet-metal bar formed with alongitudinal roll or bend c, as shown best in Fig. 3, which extends fora major-portion of its length, and at this point the said bar isdivided, as shown at-d, and the minor portion then also formed with aroll or bend e in line with the roll of the major portion. In practicethe side edges of this bar are passed through the slot b of the stay-barand straightened against the under side thereof, the smaller portion fof the minor portion remaining upon the upper face of the stay-bar, andis adapted to be bent or turned into a substantially vertical positionto admit the hanger D and then bent down to retain the same and form alock therefor. There is a space 9 between the two rolls for the verticalarm of the hanger, as shown in Fig. 1.

The hanger D consists of a piece of wire formed at one end with an eyeh, and between this eye and the bend 't' with another eye j, throughwhich eyes the securing means are designed to be passed, as shown inFig. 1. From the bend t' the wire extends substantially vertical andterminates in a horizontal portion 7a. The hanger is attached to thestaybar by turning up the minor portion of the bar 0, admitting thehorizontal portion of the hanger into the roll of the major portion andthen bending down the said minor portion, as indicated in Fig. 1. 'Thehanger is then held firmly against displacement, and yet free to havesufficient play through the opening between the two rolls.

hat we claim as new is 1. The combination, with the trough auditsstay-bar formed with a longitudinal slot, of the bar with a portionthereof held in said slot on the stay-bar formed with longitudinal roll,and the hanger held in said roll, as set forth.

2. The combination, with the trough'and its stay-bar formed with alongitudinal slot, of:95,,

formed With two separated rolls, one of which I having its horizontalportion confined by the is bendable, and the hanger held in the rollsmajor roll with its vertical portion Working 1n of the said bar,substantially as described. the space between the tworolls,substant1a1ly 15 4. The combination, with the trough and its asshown and described. 5 stay-bar formed with a longitudinal slot, of I Intestimony whereof We affix our signatures the sheet-metal bar 0, held inthe said slot in presence of two Witnesses.

and formed With a major and a minor roll,

with a space between the two, and the bar JR separated between therolls, the major por- 10 tion being fixedly held and the minor portion711311683632 adapted to be bent upward to receive the FRANK \VAGNER,

horizontal portion of the hanger, and a hanger HERMAN ARNOLD.

